ABSTRACT
Chapter 10 concludes this book’s inquiry and summarises the support for ICCJ as a novel account of voluntary consent. The chapter summarises how the book demonstrated that ICCJ can be supported on the basis of a Top-Down approach as well as on the basis of a Bottom-Up approach. Both theoretical considerations around causation, morality, and coercion and the practical consideration of key challenges from clinical practice support the view of ICCJ as the correct approach to voluntary consent. However, over and above contributing to a topic in practical ethics, the chapter also argues that ICCJ contributes to the more general debate on voluntariness that started in twentieth-century philosophy of action and cuts ties with theories postulating volitions. Thus, so understood, this book aims to provide a contribution not only to the ethics of consent but also to twentieth-century philosophy of action and related areas in moral philosophy.
